[Pendekatan jaringan ulama Melayu-Indonesia selalu mendominasi banyak kajian Islamisasi di wilayah Sunda (Jawa Barat), sementara artikulasi Islam dalam artian pribumisasi Islam di wilayah tersebut kerap kali dikesampingkang. The main focus of this study is‍to‍emphasize‍the‍significances‍of ‍the‍position‍of ‍Mustapa's‍dangding in the light of network of Islamic scholars in the archipelago and of the contribution of Sundanese mystical dangding to the local literacy traditions and to the making of Sundanese-Islamic identity. The article discusses dangding as one of Sundanese metrical verses‍by‍a‍renown‍Sundanese‍poet,‍Haji‍Hasan‍Mustapa‍(1852-1930).‍It‍is‍ argued that dangding of Mustapa demonstrates a type of dialogue between sufism‍and‍Sundanese‍culture.‍Through‍his‍dangding, Mustapa successfully brought Islamic mysticism into Sundanese minds. In many scholarly discussions, the network of Malay-Indonesian ulama has gained important attention as it is maintained as the major element contributing to the process of Islamization in Sunda region (West Java), whereas the articulation of Islam in the lights of the indigenization efforts of Islam is often neglected. His willingness to endure some difficulties in the journey is not just associated with his internal feeling in the sense of spiritual life, but also his satisfication to join in what Habermas called as a 'public space' where Muslims could create a community without being constrained by Colonial rule. Mustapa’s interpretation of the mystical meaning of hajj shows his peculiarities as a sufi. The paper tries to confirm both van Dijk and Chambert-Loir’s works on other Sundanese stories of hajj such as Raden Panji Nagara, Moehammad-Hoesen, and R.A.A.

Beware if your hajj is just a physical matter. However, Mustapa assumed that the meaning of hajj was not only the hajj ritual physically but also the inner-side of feeling (alaming rasa). In addition to the storm in the sea, the pilgrims found other difficulties in the Holy Land. It shows that hajj in the colonial period was very difficult. The paper uses an intertextual approach with an analysis of social history and Sufism. Mustapa told about the hajj journey route, his experiences of suffering, and he also provided an interpretation of inner meaning of hajj according to the Sufi perspective. One of his hajj stories was Kinanti Munggah Haji. He is one greatest Sundanese poets as he wrote more than 10 thousand cantos on Sufism from 1900-1902. The author of the dangding was Haji Hasan Mustapa (1852-1930). It was expressed in the form of Sundanese metrical verse which was called dangding or guguritan. The paper discusses a Sundanese story of hajj or pilgrimage to Mecca during the Dutch colonial period.

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